Volume 15 Number 17

October 10, 2014

Narrative Form and Yam Lau's Room:
The Encounter in Arts Based Research

Adrienne Boulton-Funke
Missouri State University, USA

Citation: Boulton-Funke, A. (2014). Narrative form and Yam Lau's Room: The
encounter in arts based research
International Journal of Education & the Arts, 15(Number 17). Retrieved [date] from
http://www.ijea.org/v15n17/.

Abstract
In this paper, I consider "the encounter" (O'Sullivan, 2006) and conceptualizations
of subjectivity and identity proposed by post qualitative scholars (Jackson &
Mazzei, 2012; Lather & St. Pierre, 2013; Lenz Taguchi, 2012; MacLure, 2013; St.
Pierre, 2010) and contemporary art theory (O'Sullivan, 2006; 2012) to attend to the
potentialities for visual arts-based research to provoke rather than represent thought.
Traditional narrative inquiry is critiqued as affirming representational thought while
the methodological implications of duration will be explored as a psychical site for
new thought creation. I draw on my encounter with Canadian artist, Yam Lau's
film/CG animation, Room (2004) and the works of Deleuze and Guattari to critique
the narrative form and persistent humanist notions of subjectivity in qualitative
research. I argue for the potentiality of the encounter in creating conditions for an
affective disruption to perceptions and suggest future implications for arts-based
educational research and pedagogy with secondary teacher candidates.